Eleanor Moreton

Moreton’s recent work has further evolved her enquiry into image-making and a dissection of those cultures which produced the photographs, paintings or illustrations she works from. Working from specific cultural artefacts, products of a historical/geographical place, she refers repeatedly to psychoanalysis, European history of the last 200 years, homes, the feminine and literature. Hers are paintings of longing and ambivalence, nostalgic and sentimental, yet analytical and critical, they investigate a sense of loss that drives us in acquisitiveness, addiction, deception and creativity. Moreton often chooses images of the pauses in people’s lives, where they present themselves for others, for history.